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6.1820 Calendar: Spring 2026

Here is the tentative schedule of lectures and due dates.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
Feb 3
First day of classes
LEC 1: Introduction and Key Ideas (Slides)
Assigned: Lab 0 		Feb 5
LEC 2: Fundamentals of IoT Localization (Slides)
Preparation: Read Location-based Services, Wikipedia: GPS (Questions) 		Feb 6
iOS Tutorial 4pm-5pm in E14-633.
Feb 10
LEC 3: Practical Device-based Localization (Slides)
Preparation: Read Cricket, RADAR
Assigned: Lab 1
Assigned: Pset 1
(Questions) 		Feb 12
LEC 4: Seeing through Walls & Device-Free Localization (Slides)
Preparation: Read WiTrack
DUE: Lab 0
(Questions)
Feb 16
Presidents' Day		 Feb 17
No class. Monday schedule of classes		 Feb 19
LEC 5: Network Connectivity (BLE, low-power WAN, Wi-Fi, cellular, 5G) (Slides)
Preparation: Read gps surveillance
DUE: Lab 1
(Questions)
Feb 24
No class. Snow Day 		Feb 26
LEC 6: Mesh and Multi-Hop Wireless Networks (Slides)
Preparation: Read ETX
(Questions) Assigned: Lab 2
Mar 3
LEC 7: Batteryless Connectivity & Smart Cities (Slides)
Preparation: Read Hacking RFIDs and Caraoke
(Questions)
Mar 5
LEC 8:Self-Driving Cars (Slides)
Preparation: Read Hawkeye: Through Fog High Resolution Imaging Using Millimeter Wave Radar
(Questions)
DUE: Pset 1
Mar 10
LEC 9: Intro to Inertial Sensing; Activity Recognition (Slides)
Preparation: Read Developments of Inertial Sensing and Principles of Inertial Sensing (Section 3.1 and 3.2 only)
(Questions) Assigned: Lab 3
DUE: Lab 2 		Mar 12
LEC 10: Pothole detection(Slides)
Preparation: Read Pothole Patrol
(Questions)
 Assigned: Project Proposal Instructions Assigned: Pset 2
Mar 17
LEC 11: Attacks on Acoustic Sensing (Slides)
Preparation: Read BackDoor
(Questions)
DUE: Lab 3 		Mar 19
LEC 12: Ocean IoT
(Slides)
Preparation: Read Underwater Backscatter Networking (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 4
Mar 23
Spring Break		 Mar 24
Spring Break		 Mar 25
Spring Break		 Mar 26
Spring Break		 Mar 27
Spring Break
Mar 31
LEC 13: Agriculture IoT (Slides)
Preparation: Read FarmBeats
 (Questions)
DUE: Project Proposals 		Apr 2
LEC 14: Wireless NeRFs (Slides)
Preparation: Read Can NeRFs See without Cameras?
(Questions)
Apr 7
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Lab 4 		Apr 9
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Pset 2
Apr 14
Quiz review session during class
DUE:Final Project Components List 		Apr 16
Midterm during lecture time
Apr 20
Patriots' Day 		Apr 21
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Drop Date 		Apr 23
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Apr 28
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time) 		Apr 30
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
May 5
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Project Titles and Abstracts 		May 7
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
May 12
Final Presentations
DUE: Presentations and Demos
Last Day of Classes
 May 15
Finals begin